Republican Quotes - Page 30

• So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.

  Tony Campolo

  Jobs, Party, Commitment

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• There’s no Democratic way to run a city and there’s no Republican way to run a city -- just the right way to run a city.

  Buddy Cianci

  Running, Cities, Way

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• I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.

  Ed Rollins

  Strong, Party, Failing

  "Commentary: Stop throwing dirt on GOP 'grave'" by Ed Rollins, www.cnn.com. May 14, 2009.

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• When the Republicans controlled the House from 1994 -2006, Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Henry Waxman Charlie Rangel, John Conyers and Rahm Emanuel weren't saying we need to move right to win. They stuck to their philosophy. And they fought against Reagan and they fought against the Bushes. And eventually they did win.

  Ed Rollins

  Philosophy, Moving, Winning

  "Commentary: Stop throwing dirt on GOP 'grave'" by Ed Rollins, www.cnn.com. May 14, 2009.

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• All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

  Jack Kemp

  Party, Taken, Black

  "Kemp Courts Harlem Voters With Open Arms, Little Hope". www.nytimes.com. September 7, 1996.

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• Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach.

  Herman Cain

  War, Years, Trying

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• You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

  Mark Russell

  Brain, Democrat, Brain Dead

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• Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the Pennsylvania Republican primary election

  Michael Reagan

  Party, Winning, Pennsylvania

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• Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

  Wendell Phillips

  Safety, Republic, Distrust

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• Theta clearing is about as practical and simple as repairing a shoe lace. It is nothing to do with hypnotism, voodooism, charalatanism, monkeyism or theosophy. Done, the thetan can do anything a stage magician can do in the way of moving objects around. But this isn't attained by holding one's breath or thinking right thoughts or voting Republican or any other superstitous or mystic practice. So for the reason I brought up, rule out, auditor, any mumbo jumbo or mysticism, spiritualism, or religion.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Moving, Simple, Thinking

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• With the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, this is the Eisenhower-era revisited. It's ostrich time, where people are looking for comfort rather than challenge in their art. It's a lot easier to listen to Barry Manilow murder what are actually good songs from the '50s than to consider what [left-leaning songwriter] Steve Earle has to say.

  David Fricke

  Song, Art, Ostriches

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• In his study of Atlanta over the last 60 years, Kevin Kruse convincingly describes the critical connections between race, Sun Belt suburbanization, the rise of the new Republican majority. White Flight is a powerful and compelling book that should be read by anyone interested in modern American politics and post-World War II urban history.

  Dan Carter

  Powerful, War, Book

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• Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves.

  Johnny Ramone

  Too Much, Sticks, Happens

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• Democrats, independents, Republicans, all of us Americans who love our country. What a wonderful time to come together and really just count our blessings. And to remember those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for us and for this country and all those freedoms we love.

  Robert Hurt

  Country, Sacrifice, Blessing

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• What we're seeing early on is Democrats rallying around Al Gore, Republicans rallying around George Bush and the difficulty of anybody else to get any room in the race.

  Stuart Rothenberg

  Race, Vision, Als

  "Strong kickoffs by Bush, Gore leave other hopefuls scrambling" by Beth Fouhy, www.cnn.com. June 20, 1999.

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• A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this obstruction and disruption. Should Republicans succeed in obstructing the Senate from doing its job, it would further lower Congress’s generic favorability rating among the American people. By sabotaging the reputation of an institution of government, the party that is programmatically against government would come out the relative winner.

  Mike Lofgren

  Jobs, Couple, Party

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• Republicans are no longer allowed to say that people are rich. You have to refer to them as "job creator." You can't even use the word rich. You have to say, "This chocolate cake is so moist and job creator."

  Jon Stewart

  Jobs, Cake, People

  "'This Week' Transcript: Timothy Geithner". "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. July 24, 2011.

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• I'm trying to sum up President Obama's first 11 months in office. He gave billions to Wall Street, cracked down on illegal immigrants getting health care, and he's sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. You know something, he may go down in history as our greatest Republican president ever.

  Jay Leno

  Wall, Office, Trying

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• The Republican tax cut threatens to undercut both veterans health care and the veterans educational benefits that have been recognized for decades as not only the long-standing obligation of the Nation to its veterans, but also as the best recruiting incentives we can offer to keep our armed forces strong and sharp.

  Lane Evans

  Strong, Educational, Cutting

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• I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement. I don't think the libertarians have it right when it comes to what the Constitution's all about. I don't think they have it right as to what our history is.

  Rick Santorum

  Party, Fighting, Thinking

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• Why do all Republicans need Lego hair?

  Cenk Uygur

  Hair, Needs, Legos

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• I find it ironic that Republicans have such disdain for the lazy, and yet their solution to every problem is do nothing. Their answer to wealth inequality, do nothing. Health care? Do nothing. Climate change? Nothing. Racism? Doesn’t exist. For a group of people so head over heels in love with self-reliance, they sure do recommend a lot of sitting on their ass.

  Bill Maher

  Self, Racism, People

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• It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.

  Timothy Thomas Fortune

  Government, Safe, Reason

  Timothy Thomas Fortune (1884). “Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South”

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• Here’s why I find it impossible to be a Republican: any crowd that instantly cheers the execution of 234 individuals is a crowd I want to flee, not join.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Cheer, Crowds, Want

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• At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion.

  Marty Meehan

  Benefits, Pushing, Increase

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